IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 240277 accession number: PB 17-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 17 February 2020 updated: Monday 8 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The title pages of both volumes are engraved; each features an engraved vignette depicting 5 ships sailing on the ocean, with motto: "cuncta mea mecum", above 6 lines of verse by Valerius Flaccus (beginning: "O quantum terræ, quantum cognoscere cœli ..."). With an engraved frontispiece to v.1, depicting a naval officer (presumably Stedman) standing with his bayonet over the fallen body of a re-captured slave; beneath are 4 lines of verse: ""From different parents, different climes we came, / At different periods;" fate still rules the same. / Unhappy youth while bleeding on the ground; / 'Twas yours to fall - but mine to feel the wound." Illustrated with 80 fine copperplates (some folded) from drawings by Stedman, engraved by William Blake and others. These include maps, topographical views, detailed depictions of flora and fauna, anthropological studies and portraits. Wanting plate 1: map of Guinea. Dedicated to the Prince of Wales. With a list of subscribers in v.1. At the end of each vol. is a table "Directions for placing the plates". Errata on final leaves of v.1-2 object type: Imprint: "London. : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, & J. Edwards, Pall Mall., 1796" 2 volumes. title: Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots; with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J. G. Stedman ; illustrated with 80 elegant engravings from drawings made by the author LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books collection: Founder's Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240277 CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1796 - 1796 creation date earliest: 1796 creation date latest: 1796 CREATORS -------- maker: Stedman, John Gabriel maker: Blake, William maker: Holloway, Thomas maker: Bartolozzi, Francesco maker: Condor, Thomas maker: Johnson, Joseph maker: Edwards, James (bookseller) EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Black Atlantic: Power | People | Resistance